Trona

Word TRONA
Character 5
Hyphenation tro na
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Trona"

What do we mean by trona?

A natural vitreous gray or white mineral, Na2CO3·NaHCO3·2H2O, used as a source of sodium compounds. noun

The native soda of Egypt, a hydrous carbonate of sodium, Na2CO3.HNaCO3 + 2H2O. noun

A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum. noun

A saline evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, Na3HCO3CO3·2H2O. noun

A saline evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, Na3HCO3CO3·2H2O.

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The word "trona" in example sentences

In the beginning of winter the trona is the thickest and best, but in the spring it disappears entirely. ❋ Unknown (1844)

And so we control emissions of sulfur dioxide in other ways, principally by using the trona, which is chemically very similar to sodium bicarbonate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Trona is a desperate little town one valley over from Death Valley - a lifeless, dust-blown sulfate mining town, named for trisodium hydrogendicarbonate dihydrate, or trona, which is what they pull out of the ground around there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Wyoming Basin also has extensive coal deposits along with areas of trona, bentonite, clay, and uranium mining. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is made both by the processing of the minerals trona (Na3H (CO3) 2. 2H2O) and nahcolite (NaHCO3), and by processing sodium carbonate-rich waters (called brines). ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is known as the Solvay process, and was the main source of soda ash until the Wyoming trona deposits were discovered. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oil and gas exploration, along with mining (strip mining for coal and hard-rock mining for trona and other industrial minerals), have the potential to cause considerable disturbance, wildlife displacement, and environmental pollution. 6,000 to 11,000 new oil and gas wells could be sunk in southwestern Wyoming in the next 20 years. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Wyoming Basin also has extensive coal deposits along with areas of trona, bentonite, clay, and uranium mining. 18a. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of course, almost anything could be not-so-good in Trona, with all that trona salt flying around. ❋ Silver Fox (2008)

This deposit consists of thick, extensive beds of trona and thin trona beds inter-bedded with salt (halite). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The largest trona deposit in the world is in the Green River Basin of Wyoming. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the worse things was learning your beautiful brown-eyed daughter had been raped and tortured, as Tara had in '88 as a ma trona in Chile, and one of the scarier things. ❋ Early, Margot (1999)

Gouro nuts are chewed, and sometimes even swallowed when mixed with _trona_, a habit not peculiar to Houssa, for it extends to ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

The cakes of trona vary in thickness from a mere film to several inches. ❋ Unknown (1844)

Gypsum, trona, limestone and phosphorus ore, but a geologist might take issue with calling phosphorus ore a rock. ❋ By TARA PARKER-POPE (2012)

The sorbents, primarily sodium bicarbonate and trona, are used by coal-fired utilities to remove harmful pollutants, such as acid gases, in flue-gas treatment processes.

Natronx intends to invest ~ $60 mln to construct a 450,000 ton per year facility to produce trona sorbents by the fourth quarter of 2012 .

The Tibboo showed his sense of my attention, by giving me some trona, which he says abounds in Bornou, and is called ❋ James Richardson (1828)

Lower cost materials like lime and ground trona are preferred agents for neutralizing sulfur oxides (SOx) from power plants and factories. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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